Chapter 327

"You gave them to me." Colin's fingers traced the lower-right corner of the specimen, where a black signature with the letters 'C' - Caldwell's initial - was inscribed.

I stared at Colin, my breath catching. "Me? I gave these to you?"

All of these specimens?

"You said that the beauty of a shooting star lies in its fleeting moment. That the brief bloom of a night-blooming cereus is enough to dazzle everyone..." Colin turned to look at me, his voice as raspy as ever.

But it seemed to carry an endless stream of loneliness, grievance, and guilt. "Life is short, to preserve them forever, this was the only way."

I was shocked as I gazed at the walls filled with butterfly specimens. For a moment, they all seemed to come alive, flapping their wings, taking flight.

"I can't believe I would... like these," I said in astonishment.

Colin took my hand and led me into a room in the basement.

The door had a keypad, sturdy like a bank vault.

As the door swung open, I followed Colin inside.

tingling shock

finally opened his heart

words, was he finally willing to trust me completely, revealing his hidden secrets, his scars, all out in the open for

entire wall of the basement was covered with Colin's investigations - about Damian, about me,

there was the current

watching over everyone, like the hand of God, orchestrating

at Colin, a mix of panic and fear in my

really be the

me to a wall of photographs and pointed to the bottom left corner. "This isn't the first serial murder case. Three years ago,

psychiatrists had met their ends through slips, accidents, drownings,

'accidents' is the same one behind the serial killings?" I

common

"This man, Lamont, was one of the few with a conscience among the hospital's staff. It was

doctor Dexter had brought

these deaths... they all

all once hurt, bullied,

eyes turn towards me, while the real killer

you had this chain of evidence... why didn't you go to the

eyes reddened as he looked at me, his Adam's apple bobbing with unspoken

everything, right?" I asked, my heart

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